NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES.
APRIL 8. "Lorenzo the Magnificent" died at >[■ Florence .. .. .. j! National Gallery, London, opened . • 1838 G-aetano Donizetti, operatic composer. "■( died IS IB 1 Revolutionary outbreak at Warsaw suppressed .. .. ..106J Flogging in tko Army abolished 188' Mr Gladstone introduced first Home Rule Bill in House of Commons .. 1888 Battle of Atbara: Emir Mahmoud dc- - feated by Anglo-Egyptian force . ■ 1®? Kimberley-Bloemfontein Railway opened 1®" , APRIL 9. Edward IV. died Francis Bacon died .. .. •• I®* Flinders discovered Spcncer and Tincent Gulfe •• t Jacques Xecker, famous Finance Mmisier of Louis XTI., died 18W Bombardment of Sebastopol !>agan •• I®® 3 Danto Gabriel Riasotti, painter and ; noet. died F. Marion Crawford dUd • • .
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15560, 8 April 1916, Page 8
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